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Add "Coming From Mac or Windows" as chapter 3: a translation layer for Cmd/Win instincts rather than a feature tour. Fill the remaining coverage gaps: fcitx5 input methods, laptop speaker tuning, touchpad haptics, crash capture in the toggle table, the installable font list, and the ChatGPT Desktop and Grok Bot entries. Correct claims that drifted from the source: the network and bluetooth bar icons no longer launch nmtui/bluetoothctl, monitor scaling steps rather than cycles, and the display widget's scroll steps brightness. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad
Hyprland lets you configure all your inputs in great detail. You can change the keyboard repeat to be supersonically fast or make the trackpad use natural scrolling. You change all of it in ~/.config/hypr/input.lua, which you can also reach via Setup > Input in the Omarchy menu (Super + Space). Anything you set there replaces Omarchy's defaults.
Here's an example:
hl.config({
input = {
-- Use multiple keyboard layouts and switch between them with Left Alt + Right Alt
kb_layout = "us,dk",
kb_options = "compose:caps,shift:both_capslock_cancel,grp:alts_toggle",
-- Change speed of keyboard repeat
repeat_rate = 40,
repeat_delay = 600,
-- Increase sensitivity for mouse/trackpad (default: 0)
sensitivity = 0.35,
touchpad = {
-- Use natural (inverse) scrolling
natural_scroll = true,
-- Use two-finger clicks for right-click instead of lower-right corner
clickfinger_behavior = true,
-- Control the speed of your scrolling
scroll_factor = 0.3,
},
},
})
-- Scroll faster in the terminal
o.window("(Alacritty|kitty|foot)", { scroll_touchpad = 1.5 })
You can see all the input options on the Hyprland wiki for inputs.
Trackpad gestures
You can also turn on touchpad gestures, like swiping with three fingers to change workspaces:
hl.gesture({ fingers = 3, direction = "horizontal", action = "workspace" })
On Dell XPS laptops with a haptic touchpad, you can also set the click strength to low, mid, or high under Trigger > Hardware > Touchpad Haptics.
Typing in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages
Omarchy runs the fcitx5 input method framework as part of every session — it's what powers the CapsLock compose sequences. That means the plumbing for non-Latin input is already in place: install an input engine like fcitx5-mozc (Japanese) or fcitx5-chinese-addons (Chinese) with omarchy pkg add, plus fcitx5-configtool to add the engine to your input methods and set the key that switches between them.
Use ALT as SUPER
On some keyboards, it's not convenient to use the primary meta key (Windows/cmd key) as SUPER. You can change this to be ALT instead using this change:
hl.config({
input = {
kb_options = "compose:caps,shift:both_capslock_cancel,altwin:swap_alt_win",
},
})